Nicol Cross and Gregory Vlastos both have examined The views on the treatment of enemies and retaliation. Xenophon has been criticized by scholars such as E.

Plato, Dubs stressed, would have only made Socrates utter what would have been "thoroughly appropriate" for Socrates to say. Forbes, have suggested that Xenophon's presentation of Socrates as a moral censor and teacher of practical values, rather than as a philosophic revolutionary, may have been driven by Xenophon's essay of minimizing the "revolutionary aspects of the thought of Socrates.

While Socrates did not leave any writings, his followers Xenophon and Plato both wrote extensively about Socrates's beliefs and experiences. Socrates is stoic and calm because he sees death as a separate, actual realm, a different death of being from life but not an end to being.

Vlastos also has noted that the Socratic view that one should never do injustice in return for injustice marks a significant break with established Greek views on morality, but the critic has also pointed out that Socrates does not treat the issue of injustices done to social inferiors women, aliens, slaves in the Greek world.

When Socrates was 70 years old, he was accused of "irreligion," or impiety, and of laquinimod synthesis the youth of Athens.

Zeller for the simple and unphilosophic manner in which Socrates is depicted. It was commonly held during Socrates's time that injuring one's enemies was acceptable, particularly if one had been injured by those enemies.

In this painting, someone hands a confident Socrates the goblet of hemlock. In Death of Socrates, his signatures also have meaning.

Dubs has supported the case for Plato and has suggested that Xenophon may have gotten some of his information about Socrates from Plato.